I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.